Re: XML versus Relational Database

[Soumitra Sengupta <soumitra@b-bop.com>]

Kimbro and Terje has pointed out the benefits quite well.  Storing
your documents as a persistent DOM will improve performance, allow you
to retrieve fragments of the document in the right order and you can use
XPath to query the document.  If your documents are small, the advantages
will be minimal.

Dylan Walsh wrote:

> If you do not need to search across the document, why use a persitent DOM
> implementation?
> Why not store the XML as file or as text in the database?
 

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